Finance controller (Hybrid)

Madrid - Spain

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 8 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Location: Madrid Spain

In fast changing markets customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each aerospace transportation defence security and space our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrows possible.

Thales in Spain is a leader in technological solutions applied to Defence Aeronautics Security Transportation and Space and furthermore is a global centre for excellence in Space Security of Critical Infrastructures and Transportation. With a turnover of 320 million and a staff of 1200 it exports approximately 40% of its total production principally to the Middle East North Africa and Latin America.

In Spain Thales EURAMs mission in the Regions is to foster and manage growth of Thales presence in all the countries of these Regions for all Thales group activities in the aerospace transport defence and security domains.

In this context Thales marks its presence by the creation of local entities meant for acting as local contractors and system integrators or meant for acting as offshore vehicles supporting Thales Operational Units initiatives for exporting their solutions to customers in these Regions.

Regional business activities are driven by a dynamic demand characterized by sharp competition and growing customers requirements in terms of quality systems products and services sophistication delivery time and prices industrial cooperation and financing schemes. Customers in the private and public sectors are very diversified and include ministries municipalities operators in the transport oil & gas airport airlines civil works domains etc.

Business activities are conducted through the local presence of dedicated organizations (representative offices branches subsidiaries and JVs).

The Job Holder will address the activities of all these organizations. The Job Holder will be a key element in the implementation of the New World NG project and as such will contribute to the evolution of the Thales Group organization as well as of its way of working in line with Ambition 10 in order to take into consideration the evolutions of its environment new laws & regulations and the best ethical and governance practices.

Working in close contact with various stakeholders in the Regional Company environment the Job Holder will be in charge of the monthly reporting activities of the RC (monthly result analysis Magnitude & Anaplan reports). In that respect the Job Holder organizes monthly closing reviews with the Finance Director and the Chief Accountant.

The Job Holder will insure a close monitoring of the RC revenue (quarterly invoicing bonus & support invoicing various recharges)

The Job Holder is the interlocutor of Corporate for all analysis questions they may have

The Job Holder will be the main contributor to the budget building and the budgetary control activities. He/She will play an active role in the elaboration of the three-year plan (Multi-Year Budget (MYB)) with all stakeholders involved such as delegations in countries regional CFOs head quarter in Paris and finance team. He/She will ensure the coordination and will challenge each stakeholder.

The JobHolder will have to manage and train a small team mainly VIE.

The Job Holder will assist the CFO in the preparation of semestrial review (so-called Business Operating Review (BOR)) by performing various analyses. The Job Holder will manage the action plans if any in coordination with the team and the stakeholders.

The Job Holder will also to manage transversal activities as :

- Participating in digital transformation of the finance department through transversal projects such as Anaplan or Power BI.

- Improving financial tools (monthly reporting follow-up files accounting processes).

- Assisting the CFO and the team in external or internal audit processes.

Experience Knowledge & Skills

The Job Holder shall have a minimum of 3/4 years professional experience in finance/business control or audit in an international environment.
He/She shall have a perfect level of English language
At least a good practice of Spanish language.
French is valuable
He/She shall be autonomous meticulous self-confident teamwork capable well organized and have an interest for the Regions cultures traditions and way of life.
The Job Holder shall also be proficient with the use of software tools (Anaplan Magnitude Word Excel and PowerPoint).

What do we offer

Flexible working hours.

Intensive working days on Fridays and during summer.

Remote-friendly 2 days a week working from home.

Restaurant allowance and social benefits (health insurance kindergarden).

Thales is a company committed to equal opportunities between women and men and for this reason we work to raise awareness and disseminate information on the subject both internally and externally.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here apply now!

Location: Madrid SpainIn fast changing markets customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each aerospace transportation defence security and space our architects design innovative solutions that ma...